During the run up to the election I’ll admit i was guilty of this because it was so important for TFG to lose. I wish our bullshit system allowd for more than a fascist and center right party.

Now? Fuck that they aren’t leading like they should.

It’s exhausting.

Thanks so much for posting that. I hadn’t heard it before and loved it

Lol the sapient one is hilarious. Especially when our ancestors probably murdered and bred out of existence other sapient species.

Part of me wonders if that turn you mentioned is our industrial revolution, invention of agriculture, or whatever set us apart from other sapient species.

Some cultures and Indigenous belief systems accept death and the process of not being an immortal to be expected while ironically the Abhramic faiths that have a huge aversion to idolatry tend to want to follow in the steps of their God by living forever and exerting control over all things.

It’s fascinating to me to explore this but while I’d love for us to explore the cosmos like Carl Sagan implored us to do, it’s also so frustrating we can’t get past our initial hangups.

It’s also a very Buddhist outlook. Not because of anything specifically antihuman or pro ecology but simply because we as humans are part of a cycle that lives and dies. We don’t have a say.

You could say our karma is that we will be too proud and be too exceptionalist and end it all earlier than expected because we couldn’t come together and take care of the earth.

It sucks but the earth will go on for a few more billion years without us.

I too was once a ternager 😉

Family member: “what’s so funny?”

Me: “snort titta”

(I didn’t show them the comic I have self respect)

I saw shower and started worrying but it’s OK.

Not really. Bathing in the 17th century was more common than a lot of people realize. Check this link out for a historian that argues this in an article: https://frockflicks.com/the-gross-18th-century/